Life without self

LIFE WITHOUT SELF

Contents

1. Two Ways to Live 11
The Self Is a Prison. True or False? The Ego Rejects Facts. Time Is an Illusion. The Reason Lies Deep Within. The Me Is a Mine. Direct and Indirect Connection. Exposure to the Miracle of Life. The Nine Cores of the Teachings. The Krishnamurti Challenge. The Message of Freedom. See Yourself! Words Are Not Enough. Focus On the Whole. Don't Miss It! The Only Step. Don't Waste Your Life. Seven Parts, One Whole. Now or Never.

PART 1: TRUTH IS A PATHLESS LAND

2. The Thrill of Freedom 25
A Mutation in the Mind. The Thinker Is Thought. Consciousness Is a Storehouse. World Is Indivisible. Thinking Prevents Direct Perception. Goodbye to All Cages! The Dead Don't Listen.

3. Starting from the Core 31
Self-Made Problems. Dreaming is Not Seeing. Life is about Waking Up. A Prayer Is an Escape. Beliefs Prevent Thinking. Poison is Always Poison. Living With a Snake. Can Unity Be Described? Change Starts with Transformation. Rules Don't Work! Sick of Selfishness. Theosophical Nonsense? Giving Up Ideals. Paradise on Earth. Mind the Gaps. Misery Inherited. Escaping Evil. "Agent K" in the Andes. Limits Must Be Broken! What We Want and Why? Sweet Surrender. No Tomorrow. Love that Burns. Love Needs No Reason. Genuine Joy Comes Uninvited. Searching Safety.

4. War and Peace Within 51
War Is a Symptom. Hating Does Not Stop Hate. A Revealing Mirror. Two Ways to Get Caught. Desire Is the Core of the Self. The Touch of the Master. The Vicious Circle. The Means Create the Problems.

5. Creative Insight 57
Mind Wandering is a Habit. Clear Your Mind! Find the Treasure of Life. Insight Breaks the Power of Ego. How Wars End? Slow Down Your Life. Illusion Creates the Master. We are Copies. Never Compare!

6. Truth and Freedom 64
Who Punishes Who? Freedom Brings Alertness. Self Is a Trick. Conflicts Cannot Ennoble Us. No Escape. From Becoming to Being. Nobody Owns the World. You Are Many Selves. Living Bliss. Let Thought Unfold.

7. The Human Problem 73
Focus on the Essential. Hear Your Noise. Who Is to Blame? Cannot Catch the Truth. A Shortcut to Happiness. Prayer is Self-produced Serenity. Enjoy Listening! Freedom Does Not Need Instructions. Cannon Fodder? Experience Without the Experiencer.

8. The Real Revolution 80
Happiness and Inner Peace. Go to the Source. We Are the Problem! Clinging to the Self. Stop Collecting. The Truth Cannot Be Harnessed. Open Heart Fills with Joy. Love, Explore, and Act. Ideals Create Conflicts. Will is Selfish.

PART 2: THE OBSERVER IS THE OBSERVED

9. Education and the Significance of Life 91
Break the Bonds. Search for the Whole. Becoming a Monster. Fear Prevents Intelligence. Finding Your Vocation. Struggle for Eternal Happiness. Without Labels, We Are Alike. Peace by Patchwork Reforms? Search for Truth. Sex As an Escape. Filling an Empty Heart. Formulas Do Not Liberate. Clarity in Confusion. Where Did Respect Go? If you Must Choose, choose the Truth. You cannot know the Other. Blinded by the Paths.

10. The First and Last Freedom 106
Value Beyond Words. Double Life in the Shadow of Symbols. Hope Lies in People. Wisdom Flows from Freedom. Sad Search for Happiness. What We Are, the World Is. A Simple Solution. The Momentum. Life through a Screen. Why Do We Want More than We Need? The Conflicting Goals. A Dog Chasing Its Tail. When Fear Ends, Joy Flows. Humility is Simplicity. The Awakened Mind. The Truth Silences the Self. The Bliss of Silence. Hard to Give Up. Silence is Not an Experience. See More at the Top. Hate is Hate Everywhere. You cannot Do Much Alone. No One Knows the Unknown. Can Emotions Be Isolated? A Flower Needs No Reason to Glow. The Hook for Happiness. Whose Brains Are We Using?

11. Commentaries on Living 124
Three Egoists. Ecstasy in the Midst of Stupor. My Comfortable Cage. Light Between Darknesses. Work or Hurt? Observe to Understand. A Dead Memory Cannot Be Revived. Everything for Everyone. Faith Blocks the Light. Unexpected Break. The Truth Does Not Fall from the Sky.

12. The Source of Happiness 132
Creative Happiness. Escaping Keeps Fear Alive. Getting Rid of Hate. The Lost Vitality. Love is the Answer. The Wasted Years. The Craving for Power Is Violence. A Living Dead. No Worries about Tomorrow. Conformity Causes Dullness. Every Moment is New. Family First or Worst? In the Jungle of Beliefs. Used to Being Wrong. Indirect Self-pity. The Mystery of Life Is Not to Be Sought. In a State of Bliss. Perhaps Love. What's Wrong with the Masters? Why Instructions Won't Help? Up In the Air. The Curse of Talent. The Mystery of Mysteries. Space without Words. Knowledge Clouds Clarity. Bigger than Myself.

13. Finding a Purpose 149
Truth and Knowledge Do Not Meet. The Search Begets the Seeker. On the Other Shore. There Is No Hell! Ego is Decay. Don't Explain, Understand. Change by Giving Up. Helping or Healing? Endless Learning. Noise Annoys If You Resist It. The Toys of the Mind. Justification for Killing. No Motive for Doing the Right Thing. Lust and Glory. Politics cannot be Spiritualized. We Need a New Mind.

PART 3: MUTATION TRANSFORMS THE MIND

14. Krishnamurti's Notebook 159
It was Present and Filled the Room. Nothing Sacred in the brain. The Beginning and the End of Everything. The Cup Overflowing. Bliss Comes When It Will. Reality Is Not a Reward. Power Is the Torch of Evil. Thought Builds Its Own Prison. A Mutation is Fundamental. With or Without Thought. The Empty Brain Is Not a Vacuum. A Journey Far Beyond. Be Nothing, not a Thing. Money cannot buy. Love Has No Motive. A River Flowing Free. A Fire that Leaves No Ashes. Discipline Dries the Mind. Life Is Death. Habits Prevent a Timeless Glimpse. Everything and Nothing.

15. Life Ahead 175
Understanding Truth. Comparison Breeds Frustration. The Limits of Thinking. Enquiring Mind. Traditional Stupidity. Deep As the Ocean.

16. This Matter of Culture 180
What Are We Being Raised for? Ideals Rob Our Freedom. Sensitive to Ugliness. Don't Get Stuck in the Swamp. A Heart Full of Smiles. A Small Room and the Big Mystery. Power is Dependent. Emotions Do Not Obey. Happiness Is a By-product. A Symbol Is Just a Shadow. The Mind Is a Bubbling Spring. There Is No Equality. Teaching Is Love. Routine Puts the Mind to Sleep. Forget Fame! Working Willingly. No Need for an Inspirer. Why Stars Shine and Birds Die? Hear the River Sing. Afraid of Living. Two Ways to Listen. A Glimpse. Coercion to Escape? Cruel People. Stand-by Spectators. Where Did Your Joy Go? Don't Beat Yourself Up.

PART 4: WE ARE THE WORLD

17. Freedom from the Known 199
Simply the Best. Own and Borrowed. Doubt it! One and the Same. Pleasure Leads to Pain. Ambition Is Fear. Brutality is Learned. Free Your Mind from Images. The Burden of Thousand Yesterdays. Time is an Idea. Love Does Not Obey. The Word Is a Screen. The Observer Is an Image. Thought Breeds Duality. Facing the Truth, the Brain Surrenders. Shrinking Experiences. Why do We Miss the Most Important Thing?

18. The Only Revolution 213
Be a Total Outsider. Finding God with a Gun in Your Hand. In the Midst of Beauty. Silence Fills the Valley. Many Kinds of Silences. The Noise of Ego. Guru Misleads. On the Path of Buddha. Hard Work. Happiness in the Shadow of Sorrow. Worshipping Gods in the Dark. Playing with Toys of the Mind. Sacred ­– Everything or Nothing. The Eagle Leaves No Trace in the Air. An Empty Mind Cannot Be Purchased. Artificial Light. Innocency is Space. The Map of Sorrow. Prayer is Born of Self-pity. Our Common Burden. The Known is Confusion. Can Silence Be Heard? Don't Take Sides! Connection Comes from Understanding. Start from the Other Shore. In the Light, all Limits Disappear. At the Lunch Table. Do You See the Daffodils? Something Different. Double Life. A Mind Overloaded with Belief. Illusion and Honesty. Golden Pills.

19. The Urgency of Change 234
A Difficult Lesson. God Is a Concept. From a Prison to Another. Will is Not Awareness. A Part Is Never the Whole. Too Much Sorrow. Dreams Are Clues. Avoiding Happiness. A New and Brave Human.

20. The Impossible Question 241
A Record Playing in Your Brain. Free to Love. Analysis is Paralysis. One by One or All at Once? A Self-inflicted Danger. Cut the Crab. Where Is the Holy Hiding? The 'I' Is Quick. When the Monkey Takes Over.

21. The Awakening of Intelligence 250
The Role of a Teacher. The Centre Is the Default. The One and Only Problem. Evil is Relative. No Need for a Guru. Everyone Uses His Own Gun. Read Between the Lines. Why Does Thought Take Over? A Common Source.

22. A Wholly Different Way of Living 259
An Individual Is Not an In-dividual. Above All, a Human Being. Old Can Look New. Seeing Is the Solution. Responsibility Is Caring. Order Creates Flourishing. How is Fear Born? Joy Is Spontaneous. The Core of Beauty. The Miracle of Learning. Superstitious nonsense. Love Without Limits. Another Way to Live. Get Rid of Attachments. Faith is Not a Fact. When Life Flourishes.

PART 5: ALL TIME IS NOW

23. Meeting Scientists 275
Search for the Root. Dangerous Knowledge. Physics Meets Mystics. Is Narcissism Part of Being Human? Who Needs Help? Defining Being Human. Is Compassion Necessary in Science? Our Holographic Brain. Routes to Transformation. Opening the Psychic Closet. Can the Brain Be Still? From Dichotomy to Systemic View. Bringing Compassion into Science. Health is Wholeness. Quantum and Mental Leaps. Beyond the Measures. How to Hear Silence? We Like Conflict! Selfish People Are Energetic. The Self as a Fiction. Love is Liberty. Got the Point?

24. Truth and Actuality 290
Illusions Are Real. Thoughts Have a Right Place. Not an Opinion. Let the Facts Act. Reject the False. The Drum Vibrates to Emptiness. An Empty House. Seeing is Doing. Crooked Like a Corkscrew. Step Out of Your Stable. Meeting the Mystery. Stream Gone Wrong. Healing the Damaged Brain. The Process Revisited. Can Wisdom Be Learned? Eliminating Desire.

25. The Wholeness of Life 308
How Deep Do You Want to Go? Life is More than Me. Lost in Concepts. Still Crazy after All These Years. To Live, You Must Leave. Two Rails Never Meet. Occupied by Acute Matters. Sensing the Sacred. The Perfume. Demand Excellence! When You Are Not.

26. The Ending of Time 321
Ego Takes the Wrong Turn. Time is the Enemy. At the Source. Nothing Is Everything. Towards the Ground. Insight Transforms Thought. Old Maps Mislead Us. Out of the Shock: a New Mind. Mutation in the Brain Cells. Dispelling Darkness. Immensity Calling. The Old Brain Cannot. Cosmos Is in Meditation. From a Pond to the Ocean. A Thorn in Thought. Knocked by Knowledge. Universe as the Body of the Mind. Refuse to Have Problems! The Missing Element. The Practical and the Particular.

PART 6: BEAUTY AND LOVE

27. The Beauty of Life 348
When the Self Is Left Speechless. Who Is Healthy, Who Is Not? The Truth Is not in the Temple. The Word Is Not the Thing. Non-verbal Consultation. The Role of Culture Is to Change Man. Where Is Peace Built? Rats Destroy Each Other. A Light for All. Unending Passion Brings Creation. Space, Knowledge, and Self-awareness. The Messed-Up Human. The Mystery of the Silent Night. Thought Is Helpless. The Greatest Miracle of the World. To Be or Not to Be, that's the Problem!

28. Meeting Life 358
It Is Everywhere. Do Nothing! The Healthy Ones Are Strong. In the Grip of Culture. Drops Like a Bad Penny. Happiness Is Selfish. The Bourgeois Emptiness. Fear Hinders Wisdom. Don't Waste Your Life. This Is Transformation. The Message Is You. Where Does Life Begin? The True Religion.

29. Thinking Together 366
Collective Consciousness. Always Right. Perfect Order. Can the Brain Change Itself? Differences are Superficial. Programmed to Repeat. The Brain in Action. What Is Enough? From Animal to Human. Clearing the Confusion. Healthy Mind Is Whole. The 'Me' First, Second, and Third? Two Options. At the Crossroads. Insight Works, or Does Not. Something Wonderful. The Answer Is Freedom.

30. The Future of Humanity 381
Life Is a Live Broadcast. End the Tyranny of Thought! His Last Journal. Healed in Nature. The Earth Is Smiling. A Better 'Me' Is a Lie. Man Is to Be Dreaded. Language Doesn't Condition Us. Die With Dignity.

31. The New Agenda 392
Attention to the Actual. The Mutation is a Must! Three Thresholds. Stuck in an Illusion. Our House Is on Fire. Brains Are Shrinking. Right Foundation. Life Is on the Move. There Is No Switch. The Foam on the Surface. Order and Harmony. Like a Magnet. Break the Cycle of Time. Nobody Owns the Sky. Time to Stop. Similar in Different ways. The Most Important Arts.

32. The Future is Now 407
The Thought Behind It All. Beauty Beyond the Self. The Energy of Love. Limitless and Timeless. "It Ends".

PART 7: LIFE AS A MIRACLE

33. The Best Way to Live 412
Living in 'What Is'. The Self Is Our Own Creation. New Dimension.

Appendix

The Life of Krishnamurti 416
Krishnamurti's Posthumous Books 424
Books about Krishnamurti 425
Sources 426
Index 427